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Shares of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba saw a great launch in Hong Kong on Tuesday, after pricing its shares at 176 Hong Kong dollars (approx. $22.5) apiece. This is the biggest listing this year so far, larger than the approximately $8 billion raised by Uber in May. This also came as an excellent boost for the Hong Kong market which had problems since the pro-democracy protests escalated in recent weeks. Alibaba trades under the stock code 9988 in Hong Kong. Nine and eight are considered...

As previously reported by CoinSpeaker, China’s Bitcoin mining giant Canaan Creative conducted its IPO with its shares going public on the Nasdaq platform on Wednesday, November 20.Well, things have certainly not gone the way Canaan thought and it looks like the decision to go public was all done in haste. In its filing to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Canaan marketed its shares for $9 to $11, as per the Bloomberg report.Previously, Canaan planned to raise around...

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., has announced pricing for its soon-to-come share listing in Hong Kong. Estimated to have a target to raise $13.8 billion, the company will be selling 12.5 million shares exclusively to retail investors and has pegged it at HK$188 per share. Roughly $24, the sale will easily take its place as Hong Kong’s most expensive initial sale in history.The company plans to sell a total of 500 million ordinary shares in the Hong Kong listing, finally placing its focus on the...

Micree Zhan, the co-founder of popular crypto mining company Bitmain, has said that he will definitely return to the company, even if it means considering a legal course of action. This is the first time Zhan has publicly spoken on the matter after news of his abrupt and shocking sack from the company made the rounds last week.In an email that shocked not just Bitmain staff but eventually the entire crypto world at large, co-founder Jihan Wu informed employees that Zhan was no longer a part...